Juniors: American Literature

American Literature Essential Questions

Who is an American?What qualifies as American Literature?How do history and literature effect one another?What makes a piece of literature important enough to read 200 years after it was written? What is the American Dream? And is it, or was it, obtainable?

These are some of the essential questions we will be covering as we read our way through the earliest American writings to present day.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

American Literature Syllabus

Helpful Sites

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S.A.T. Vocabulary

Review for your S.A.T.s by looking over this list of the 1000 most common words on the S.A.T.